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# Well, 'political correctness'
is the idea that it's wrong to be hurtful to people about things about themselves they can't help or change.
It's a good idea that helps us all get along.
Please refrain from posting similar things here any more.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 20 Nov 2010, 4:01, archived)
# I'll decide what to post and what not.
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Sat 20 Nov 2010, 4:43, archived)
# And I'm afraid we'll have to judge you by the standard of what you post - which is only fair.
In all fairness your image is just a collection of items in a vending machine and therefore any inference of racism is in the eyes of those viewing the image, however you do yourself no favours by pandering to such stereotypes or being trollish when people, quite rightly, complain about said stereotyping.

If it wasn't your intention - state so. If it was then you will be held up as a racist bigot which, sorry to say, you will have to live with here.

-becky
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 20 Nov 2010, 9:53, archived)
# The the watermelon in the vending machine was put there because it
would be an item that would surely spoil--had no racial intent. Next I put live fish, rabbits and baked chicken--again, as items that would not survive the machine. It was only after using and discarding a variety of items that I decided on the 'gang theme' items.

All of your concerns of "racism" aside, these Items WOULD be hot sellers in, say, a ghetto convenience store, whether b3tans like the idea or not.

I don't BELIEVE racial stereotypes any more than I believe the Queen is a blow-up doll. But I see no reason to avoid depicting them JUST to avoid the wrath of people who have been programmed to scream "racism."
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Sat 20 Nov 2010, 12:18, archived)
# I have to say
I'm now looking forward to the day Kate and Gerry McCann join the board.
(glammerocity state of the art Luddite, Sat 20 Nov 2010, 13:57, archived)
# I assume you are pointing out the heartlessness in some of the posts
but because certain people can't hang a "racist" label on that, it is condoned here as humor. Hypocrites abound on this forum.
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Sat 20 Nov 2010, 14:03, archived)